So the choice could be to avoid the indigents or to cover costs of cleaning restrooms. We could put location in your puzzle, if you don`t mind. So, in zones with more indigents it could be thought that pay toilets would be often (or, alternatively, in a world of only paid toilets, the prices would be higher), the contrary occurring in zones with relatively less indigents.
I don`t know much about empirics of toilets (humm...it seems like a good joke), but I would like to see the data of: number of toilets (free and paid) price (0 or ...) location level of income or/and number of indigents That could be a good starting, I presume. Bests Claudio JP wrote: > > > > I thought the point of requiring coins to access a public restroom (like > many restaurant bathrooms in Boston require) was to keep the indigent out in > the first place. If not, then I suppose that's another economic puzzle for > the forum: why do some public restrooms in restaurants / bookstores require > either coins OR free tokens to use? > > -JP > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > >
